Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Changing Student Expectations Given the rapid evolution of technology and educational methods, student expectations have shifted considerably in recent years. Today’s students demand more than just traditional lectures and textbooks; they’re looking for an engaging, flexible, and personalized learning experience.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2015

High-quality teachers, textbooks, and research are now accessible to rural schools. Mobiliya Edvelop, a digital classroom platform , is delivering remote lectures to rural schools in some corners of the world — providing tablets that help rural students tap into lessons taught in urban areas.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Most of us know what to expect in a face-to-face classroom: Students sitting in rows, facing instructors and listening to lectures, watching videos displayed on screens up front, or, in smaller classes, participating in lively discussion. Others find it enriching to participate in online chat and polling.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2023

The plan is to train Jill Watson on the specific materials of any course it is being used for, by feeding in the text of lecture videos and slides, as well as the contents of the textbook. It can do some verification,” is how Goel puts it. Nothing changes in the role of the professor.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

Watkins is a lecturer of writing and rhetoric at the University of Mississippi and director of the university’s AI Summer Institute for Teachers of Writing, an optional program for faculty. “We In open-ended answers, some educators said they see it as a tool akin to a calculator, or like using content from a textbook.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2023

And he suggests that in the future students may be able to choose the “gender” and “race” of the interactive agent delivering a lecture or serving as their AI tutor, much as people today can select the gender and accent of the Siri assistant on their iPhone.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Blended Learning Programs Improve the Learning Without the Lecture. 3 Education Technologies Improve Blended Learning Initiatives. However, educators have expanded its use to cover a wide variety of subjects, such as biology and computer science , creating lesson plans more engaging than simply reading from a textbook or tablet.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The proliferation of educational apps and online resources has expanded learning beyond the confines of textbooks. What are the educational technology trends in 2024? Education is experiencing a technology-fueled rebirth as it moves into 2024. How has technology impacted K-12 education?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2018

Gone were the days of handwritten flashcards and ten-pound textbooks. But the technology itself was not my concern. A third loaded up a digital textbook filled with circuits, transistors, and other assorted electronics diagrams. Ask any first year college student studying education, and their face will light up.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

And it’s this service that makes it possible for our system to turn a classroom lecture into a study guide. Of course, this is also essential assistive technology. The Echo360 video platform use Amazon Transcribe to provide real-time transcriptions of lectures at the University of Michigan. Source: Echo360.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

In fact, he predicted that the changes he’s experimenting with this semester might be jarring to students accustomed to lecture classes. His course expects a “new workflow,” he explains, since it uses adaptive courseware software, as well as a flipped classroom model where lectures are replaced with the interactive material.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2021

It’s a divide that universities can and should work to close by setting clear technology standards, and then making sure all students can meet them, Francis argues: “We should be filling in that gap.” ‘I You do need a device that is fairly new—not more than five years old. I do not have money for a new or used one, and it is extremely slow.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2019

In this system, students choose from a menu of content delivery options (textbook, downloadable study guides, lectures) and interaction options (in-person or online). Today’s technologies, he notes, make it easier than ever to create, distribute, and navigate such a curriculum. “If His choice: modular learning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

education technology company has reached the billion-dollar valuation mark, and with that comes bragging rights to being a “unicorn.” That ruffled feathers early on, particularly as professors claimed copyright over their lecture and test materials, and said that services like these made it easier for students to cheat.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2025

Key points: Edtech objectives and student engagement goals should drive technology selections Leveraging edtech for differentiated instruction A critical shift in digital instruction in 2025 For more news on interactive learning, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Education today looks dramatically different from classrooms of just a decade ago.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2024

From traditional tools like textbooks and whiteboards to innovative technologies and instructional strategies, these resources shape the classroom learning environment and promote academic success. Educational tools for students are used in a variety of methods by educators to facilitate effective learning experiences.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

Laurie Santos, a professor of psychology at Yale, recorded lectures for her Science of Well-Being MOOC in her home. The hope is this isn’t going to be an ordinary class or lecture series for you,” Santos tells students in an introductory video within the MOOC. The science of psychology has a lot to say to people about how to live.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2018

This article is part of a collection of op-eds from thought leaders, educators and entrepreneurs who reflect on the state of education technology in 2018, and share where it’s headed next year. The convergence of these challenges is making it much harder for faculty to engage students in traditional lecture-style classes.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

What are tools and techniques in education? From traditional classroom learning tools like textbooks and whiteboards to innovative techniques such as flipped classrooms and educational software, these resources aim to optimize educational outcomes and engage students effectively.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

To history teacher Joe Welch, too many of today’s lessons still call to mind Ben Stein’s classic classroom lecture in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” Welch, an 8th-grade teacher at North Hills Middle School in Pittsburgh, is charting his own path—one that doesn’t include a textbook. My advice to young teachers is to go for it.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2016

What community college students need is access to more flexible, personalized, individually-paced and low-cost programs to succeed — the perfect job for education technology. With over one-fourth of community college students living below the national poverty level, open educational resources (e.g.,

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

From traditional classroom learning methods like lectures and textbooks to innovative technologies such as interactive whiteboards and educational apps, these tools aim to facilitate effective learning experiences and foster student growth.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2020

Like many others teaching college classes across the country, Sharyn Hardy spent the last few days figuring out how to translate her carefully crafted classroom lectures into lessons that her students can learn online. Yet she has had to do double the adapting of most full-time faculty.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2019

In the applied laboratory, we often use learning materials that are realistic, such as video lectures, portions of a textbook or diagrams. Once we have strong evidence to suggest that some process, or learning strategy, does in fact cause learning, we begin to approximate the real-life setting without actually entering that setting.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

BBookX uses artificial intelligence to create OER texts for professors to use in their courses instead of traditional textbooks. More Human’ Another idea Bowen and Sparrow are working on right now is how to use AI to evaluate audio recordings of classroom lectures to provide feedback to instructors.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

All of my colleagues from graduate school are scattered across the country at different universities, they're all finding it too,” says Rachel Davenport, a senior lecturer at Texas State University andinterim head of the Honor Code Council at the university, which handles issues of academic dishonesty.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

Before his talk, Eagleman shared a little of his thinking with EdSurge about brain training, what educators need to know about neuroscience and his favorite jaw-dropping fact about the space between our ears. EdSurge: You’re a neuroscientist, but your work does not necessarily have an obvious intersection with education technology.

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Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2022

One model that seems to be working well, says Frizell, is one where a tutor is embedded in a large lecture class, an approach called the “ supplemental instruction program.” “If Supplemental instruction programs embed a student tutor in a large lecture class. We’re teaching students how to read their textbooks.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

But teachers can strive to be as neutral as they can, says Dean Cantù , a professor of teacher education at Bradley University in Illinois whose research focuses on the education of history and social studies. They’re seeing all sorts of information in which there are certain biases that you can recognize.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Here are some ideas: Educators – as you know, we’re in a digital world, and using technology in the classroom such as video as a means of communicating messages is taking over. The days of checking books out of the library, traditional style lecturing, and writing papers with a pen are continuously becoming pastimes.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Join us in Houston, April 5-6, 2018 for the first Creator Fest , where educators and subject experts will collaborate to develop additional resources to use with OpenStax textbooks. ?. Experiment with cutting edge learning technologies. I like to start a series of lectures with a real-world scenario. Check it out!

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

Open educational resources (OER) are gaining increasing popularity. And as an active member in what advocates define as the “open education movement,” I frequently hear about the growing dissatisfaction of textbook costs and pedagogical concerns among faculty about outdated course materials.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2017

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in West Bengal, India Kintali fell behind in a course on complexity theory (which is too complex to explain here). Rather than rush to catch up, he opted to move through the textbook at his own pace so he could truly understand the concepts. Kintali’s answer to the evolution of the textbook is.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

My First Big Risk: Flipping the Script When I became a teacher, I promised myself that I wouldn’t teach from the textbook and bore my students with presentations. My classroom was set up with desks in rows and my lessons included lectures with PowerPoint presentations, worksheets and textbook work.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

And Proctorio has inked deals with McGraw-Hill and other textbook publishers to bundle its proctoring tool into courseware, meaning even doing homework may now involved being watched and tracked for suspicious behavior. But the level of outcry is unusual for an edtech product. Yet they are quickly becoming mainstream.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

At first, the university provided iPad Minis to incoming undergraduates and worked to build a library of custom electronic textbooks written by faculty members. I think this platform has allowed our faculty to experiment and do less lecturing and more digitizing of their content,” says Lynn’s CIO, Chris Boniforti. “As

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

For example, faculty often create lecture materials and documents directly in Notability that students can edit immediately. At USC, at the end of each lecture, students are given a series of tags that they can use if they choose. Providing students documents in a format that aligns with this tool is key.

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